County and District Champions -- Rison's first-rate baseball team made a clean sweep in this spring's baseball competition, winning both the county and Eighth district titles. They will go to Birmingham next month to compete in the state tournament. The winner there goes to the regional and then to the national. Rison defeated New Market for the county title and Guntersville for the district. Both were by one-sided scores, 12-0 and 9-1, respectively.

And here is a photo of the surviving members of the 1948-1949 Championship Baseball Team, made at the 2005 Rison/Dallas Association Reunion:Front row, left to right: Marvin Brewer, C.E. Morrison, Billy Bowden, Virgin Medlen Back row, left to right: Jimmy Falkenberry, Charles Chisam, Bill Schrimsher, Sonny Edgemon
(Not pictured is Lowell Hunt.)

Ah one, ah two, ah three!
Go back, go back, go back to the woods,
You haven't, you haven't, you haven't got the goods.
You haven't got the pep, you haven't got the jazz,
You haven't got the team that RISON has!
Rison! Rison! Rison!

Optimist Park Little League Baseball Team - 1950
This was one of the first Little League teams in Huntsville. Little League was first introduced in Huntsville in the summer of 1950 and this was the Dallas Optimist team that year.Back row, left to right: Harry Richard Clark, Crawford Howard, Gary Myers, Buddy BurkettMiddle row, left to right: Ray Strickland (coach), Larry Daniels, John Earl Branum, Eddie MyhandFront row, left to right: Floyd Rickets, Tussy Harris, ??
Do you know the missing name?

Wanda Renegar can be seen in the stands on the left and that's Tony Campbell in the striped shirt in the dugout; others are not identifiable.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~These four pictures were taken at the Lincoln Gym in 1952-1953To the right of Coach Myhand, back to front: Donald Mitchell, Virgil Cagle and Wayne Lee To the left of Mr. Myhand, back to front: is Victor Acuff, Billy Starr, Harry Clark

The photograph above was taken by E. Price and published in the sports section of the Huntsville Times with the following information:
"The Rison team pictured above romped away with the championship in the Huntsville Babe Ruth League. They will enter the playoff this week favored to win. The team won seven, lost one in regular season play.
Rison plays Lincoln in the first game Monday morning at 8:30. Big Spring plays Joe Bradley at 1:30."